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unusual facts about French India



Antoine de Sartine

Antoine de Sartine inherited a strong French Navy, resurrected by Choiseul after the disasters of the Seven Years' War (in which France had lost Canada, Louisiana, and India); a resurrected French Navy which would later defeat the British Navy in the War of American Independence.

French India Representative Assembly election, 1946

The election was won by the National Democratic Front of Deiva Zivarattinam, that won 30 out of 44 seats.

Louis Alexis Étienne Bonvin

In 1938, the Metropolitan Government entrusted the French Establishments in India, a region shaken by unrest in the textile mills, to Louis Bonvin who successfully restored social peace and earned the trust of his constituents in the five regions of French India: Pondichéry, Kârikâl, Mahé, Yanaon and Chandernagore.


see also

André Julien

André Julien, Comte Dupuy (1753–?), Governor General of French India, 1816–1825

Marakkar

Basically there, "Thambisa" refers the name of a traditional South Indian tamil speaking Marakkayar family by name Haji Muna.Thambisa Maricar family from Karaikal of Pondicherry (now 'Puducherry') Union, a town of French India earlier.